Philosophy, animality and the life sciences

by Khandker, Wahida

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Title Statements

Full title :Philosophy, animality and the life sciences / Wahida Khandker.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 159 pages ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780748676774, 0748676775, 0748676783, 9780748676781
oclc:ocn890006344
LC Classification:B105.A55
Dewey Decimal:179.3

Introduction -- Forces of nature : evolution, divergence, decimation -- Pathological life and the limits of medical perception -- Violence, pathos and animal life in European philosophy and critical animal studies -- From animal-machines to cybernetic organisms ... -- Organicism and complexity : Whitehead and Kauffman -- Aped, mongrelised and scapegoated : adventures in biopolitics and transgenics in Harraway's animal worlds -- Epilogue : a vicious circle.

Subjects

Animals (Philosophy) Animaux (Philosophie) Biowissenschaften History Human-animal relationships -- Philosophy Philosophie Philosophy and the life sciences Relations homme-animal -- Philosophie Tiere